His Heart Beats Under Mine (Coming Soon)

Psychological Thriller / Horror / Literary Fiction

Teddy can’t stand the old man’s eye.

It follows him through the apartment—milky, twitching, full of something rotten. It watches like it knows him, like it sees the boy beneath the skin and remembers what was done to him.

So he decides to kill him.

Not out of mercy.

Not even for silence.

He wants to enjoy it. 

To snuff out that eye. To bury the unease.

To reclaim a piece of himself through the simple act of ending another.

But Henry, the old man, is not just a cracked body and a weeping eye.

He carries ghosts—of family, of love, of a truth that cost him everything.

And Teddy, despite himself, begins to listen.

To linger.

To care.

They become something almost like friends. Almost like family.

And that’s when things begin to break.

The story fractures. The past bleeds into the present.

Paintings shift. Names dissolve.

And what began as a clean, deliberate plan starts to rot from the inside out.

By the time the knife is raised, the question isn’t whether Teddy will kill Henry.

It’s whether he ever had a choice. Because once the heart starts beating under the floorboards—

You'll do anything to shut it up.